Seditious Histories - Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts

Informationen zum Autor Craig J. Reynolds is a reader in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Thai Radical Discourses and National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand, 1939-1989. Klappentext Craig J. Reynolds is a reader in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Thai Radical Discourses and National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand, 1939-1989. Zusammenfassung A collection of 11 essays! featuring debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. It explores themes that have been treated superficially in Thai historical writing! including Siam's semi-colonialism in the late nineteenth century! the concepts of militarism and masculinity! collective memory and dynastic succession! and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Acknowledgments Sources Studying Southeast Asia 1. A New Look at Old Southeast Asia 2. Paradigms of the Premodern State Seditious Histories of Siam 3. Mr. Kulap and Purloined Documents 4. A Seditious Poem and Its History 5. Feudalism as a Trope for the Past 6. Engendering Thai Historical Writing Cultural Studies 7. Religious Historical Writing in Early Bangkok 8. Buddhist Cosmography in Thai Intellectual History 9. A Thai-Buddhist Defense of Polygamy 10. A Thai Manual Knowledge: Theory and Practice The Dialectics of Globalization 11. National Identity and Cultural Nationalism Epilogue Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Craig J Reynolds, Craig J. Reynolds
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2006
• EAN: 9780295986104
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98610-4
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: Critical Dialogues in Southeas; Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies; Critical Dialogues in Southeas
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories